Incentivizing Harm: Judges Determining the Necessity of Gender Confirmation Surgery
Leah Haberman (Columbia University), Incentivizing Harm: Judges Determining the Necessity of Gender Confirmation Surgery, Colum. L. Rev. (2023): Legislative restrictions continue to bar transgender Americans from receiving gender affirming care. For many transgender people on government funded healthcare, they battle... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - September 1, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Balancing health care worker immunization and patient safety
Recently, I heard a news report regarding several states’ attorneys general suing the federal government to eliminate the requirement that health care providers be immunized against COVID. They argued that as fully immunized individuals still contract COVID, and that allowing unimmunized people to be rehired would relieve provider shortages, the regulation was unhelpful. Initially, I
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Balancing health care worker immunization and patient safety originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 30, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: M. Bennet Broner, PhD Tags: Conditions Infectious Disease Source Type: blogs
How Technology Can Overcome Social Isolation
The previous article in introduced the topic of social isolation and showed its relationship to the subjective feeling of loneliness. Now we’ll start to look at the use of technology (which has been implicated in making these conditions worse) to try to improve them.
Physically Connecting Lonely Individuals
mPulse Mobile evaluates patient needs and suggests local resources they can tap, including peer groups. The service gets data from patient records through AI and natural language processing (NLP). as well as from what the patient says to the service. According to Eden Brownell, director of behavioral science, mP...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 30, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Analytics/Big Data Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT LTPAC Aging in Place Andy Tubman Avanade Caretakers Christiana Voelker Dr. Kate Burke Eden Brownell HealCommunity Healthcare AI Healthcare NLP James Maskell loneli Source Type: blogs
The One Question FOX News Moderators Should Ask Tonight
This article was published a week after the Republican Party Primary debate
BY MIKE MAGEE
This evening, the Republican Party will sponsor their first Primary Debate. It will be historic in featuring the absence of their lead contender for the 2024 Presidential campaign, a candidate who appears committed to the destruction of their own political party
Events over the past year clearly have confirmed that we are a “work in progress” even as we stubbornly affirm our good intentions to create a society committed to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
With the Dobbs’ decision, our Supreme C...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 30, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Non-Health Dobbs Mike Magee Republican Primary Source Type: blogs
Upcoming Healthcare Regulations and Their Impact on Healthcare IT
For something as important and as sensitive as healthcare, there are plenty of rules and regulations in place to protect both patients and organizations. However, with healthcare being ever-evolving our regulations are also ever evolving. This can make it extremely difficult to not only follow all of the ones in place today but to prepare our organizations for the upcoming regulations.
To help out, we reached out to our amazing Healthcare IT Today Community to see which healthcare regulations they foresee having a big impact on healthcare IT. The following is what they had to say.
Stephen Sofoul, SVP, Data & Decision S...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 28, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Grayson Miller Tags: Administration Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC Regulations Andrew Harding athenahealth Brightside Health Cassie Choi Darena Solutions e4 Services Freshpaint Healthc Source Type: blogs
Thoma Bravo and Madison Dearborn Partners Sell Syntellis Performance Solutions to Roper Technologies
Madison Dearborn Partners (MDP) and Thoma Bravo today announced that they have completed the sale of Syntellis Performance Solutions (Syntellis), a leading provider of enterprise performance management (EPM) software, data, and intelligence solutions, to Roper Technologies, Inc. (Roper) in an all-cash transaction for an enterprise value of $1.4 billion. Syntellis will be combined with Roper’s Strata Decision Technology business.
Syntellis became an independent company with the investment support of Thoma Bravo and MDP when it was separated from Kaufman Hall in August 2020. Over the past three years, MDP and Thoma Bravo ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 28, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT A.J. Rohde Flint Brenton Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A Jason Shideler Kirkland & Ellis LLP Madison Dearborn Partners MDP Roper Roper Technologies Strata Decision Technology Syntellis Synt Source Type: blogs
AusHealthIT Poll Number 711 – Results – 27 August, 2023.
Here are the results of the
poll.
Are The ADHA, ATO And Federal Government Doing Enough To Counter E-Mail
Scams And Fraud?
Yes 22 (50%)
No 19 (43%)
I Have No Idea
3 (7%)
Total No. Of Votes: 44
A mixed (Source: Australian Health Information Technology)
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - August 27, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
The most atrocious crime in all of history
The next point on the bullet list is " Human flourishing requires fossil fuels. " I ' m not going to spend time arguing about the science, which is absolutely settled and has been for decades. In fact the pace and consequences of climate change have been at the upper bound of previous estimates. The disaster is already upon us, which is obvious to anyone. And no, all those dead and homeless people aren ' t flourishing. Fortunately, the cost of sustainable energy is already lower than the cost of fossil fuels. We do need to make major investments in energy distribution and storage, and electrification. Inste...
Source: Stayin' Alive - August 26, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
ECOWAS: In Need of Help in Niger?
Nigerian President Bola Tinubu recently sought the Nigerian national legislature ' s backing for a possible military intervention by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to turn back a coup that toppled the government of Niger. An ECOWAS intervention would have a better chance of succeeding if other nations joined the effort. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - August 25, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: Oluwatimilehin Sotubo Source Type: blogs
Waystar Acquires HealthPay24, Accelerating Mission to Simplify Healthcare Payments
Expands Impact of Waystar’s Industry-Leading Technology to More than 2,000 Provider Locations and Millions of New Patients
Waystar, a leading provider of healthcare payments technology, today announced that it has acquired HealthPay24, an EngageSmart solution and a premier enterprise patient payment platform.
In acquiring HealthPay24, Waystar welcomes a complementary and highly regarded patient financial engagement solution to its already award-winning payments platform, augmenting Waystar’s industry leadership in healthcare software, and furthering Waystar’s mission to simplify healthcare payments for providers a...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 24, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Bob Bennett EngageSmart eSolutions Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A HealthPay24 Matt Hawkins Patientco Recondo Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP Waystar Source Type: blogs
DEA ’ s criteria for identifying pill mills: a physician ’ s analysis
Many physicians reading this forum treat pain and addiction and may wonder what criteria the DEA believes to be indicative of a pill mill. The following is from a motion filed in federal court regarding the prosecution of a physician: The government claimed in the motion that pill mills, “have been found to have common
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DEA’s criteria for identifying pill mills: a physician’s analysis originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 22, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: L. Joseph Parker, MD Tags: Physician Medications Source Type: blogs
Bonus Features – August 20, 2023 – Healthcare orgs only use 57% of their data to drive decision-making, digital health is well represented on the Inc. 5000 list, and more
This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.
News
The annual Inc. 5000 list is live. Digital health companies on the list include AngelEye Health, Authenticx, DAS Health, FarmboxRX, ixlayer, Mytonomy, Reveleer, TigerConnect, TimelyCare, Valenz Health, Veda, and Vytalize He...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 20, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT 1upHealth 4medica Accelecom AliveCor Anahi Santiago AngelEye Health Authenticx AVIA Azalea Health Boston Children's Hospital C3HIE Center for Virtual Care Value and Equity Cerner Cerner CommunityWorks Christiana Source Type: blogs
A couple of thoughts
I presume my Friday post was put behind the wall of protection because it contained a naughty word, but I must say I ' ve used naughty words before without that happening. This seems to be a sign of the times. Previously I had mused about the cult of Trumpism, and I got a comment to the effect that people turned to Trump because they had lost faith in government after being lied to repeatedly over the years. Since Trump never says a single word that isn ' t a lie, that seemed like a strange argument so I asked for examples and the ones I got were so ridiculous I couldn ' t publish them. They even included examples of ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - August 20, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
The government should establish a Youth Behavioral Health Advisory Council
Even as the declared public health emergency for COVID-19 ended on May 11, two other public health emergencies continued. The first such emergency, the opioid crisis, was initially declared in October 2017, more than two years before COVID-19. A second emergency was declared for youth mental health in October 2021 by three major national associations,
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The government should establish a Youth Behavioral Health Advisory Council originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 19, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Mitchell Berger, MPH Tags: Policy Pediatrics Psychiatry Source Type: blogs
THCB 20th Birthday classics: A Brief History of Price Controls by Annoyed Republican Administrations
By UWE REINHARDT
One of the greatest pleasures of running THCB has been to get to know and host the writings of some of my health policy heroes. This week I have already published work from Jeff Goldsmith, and Ian Morrison & Michael Millenson among others will be featured next week (as the party won’t quite stop). Perhaps one of the most amazing things was that the doyen of health economists, Uwe Reinhardt, offered to write some original pieces for THCB…prodded by former editor John Irvine. This is one of my favorites, riffing on a talk I heard him give in (I think) 1993 about how HCFA was like the Kreml...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 18, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Price controls Uwe Reinhardt Source Type: blogs
